The men’s race also had an upset winner, Yuki Kawauchi of Japan. Defying elite runners’ custom of entering just two or three marathons a year, he was running in his fourth such race of 2018. (He’s won all four.)

The attack, which killed about 70 people, led to airstrikes by the United States and its allies over the weekend. Above, Russian military police officers on Monday in Douma, the site of the attack.

In Russia, a journalist who had reported on Russian paramilitary groups in Syria died after falling from his balcony, the authorities there said. The death set off alarms in a country where activists and journalists are sometimes killed in connection with their work.

The fights at Lee Correctional Institution started around 7:15 p.m. on Sunday, and officers were unable to secure the prison until around 2:55 a.m. on Monday.

State officials have pledged for years to make the state’s prisons safer after a series of deadly episodes. Lee’s warden said in 2013 that it was the most dangerous prison in South Carolina.

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6. Starbucks’s chief executive called the arrest of two black men at a Philadelphia location “reprehensible.”

The coffee shop has been the site of protests, above, since the episode last week, in which the men were surrounded by police officers and one was escorted out of the Starbucks in handcuffs. The chain said the employee who called the police no longer worked at the shop.

The Times also shared the national reporting award with The Washington Post for coverage that unearthed possible ties between Russia and President Trump’s inner circle, and won the Pulitzer for editorial cartooning for a series that chronicled a Syrian refugee family’s entry into the United States. Read The Times’s work and a full list of winners.

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9.“Rich with history, potently political and visually grand. By turns uproarious, rowdy, and lush. A gobsmacking marvel of choreography and musical direction.”

10. Finally, we tend to see eye to eye with our best friends. New research suggests one reason for that: brain-to-brain similarities.

Scientists, using a large group of graduate students as subjects, found that the brains of close friends responded similarly as they viewed a series of short videos, showing the same ebbs and swells of attention, distraction and boredom.

Next, researchers want to reverse the experiment: scanning incoming students who don’t know one another yet, and seeing whether those whose neural patterns are similar end up as friends.